Pre-Raphaelite Cats

by Susan Herbert.

Veronica Veronte

(after Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

 

The Light of the World

(after William Holman Hunt)

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man

hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to

him, and will sup with him, and he with me"

(Revelations, 111,20)

 

Princes in the Tower

(after Sir John Everett Millais)

After the death of their father King Edward 1V,

Edward, Prince of Wales, and his younger

brother Richard, Duke of York, are imprisoned

by their uncle in the tower.

Mariana

(after Sir John Everett Millais)

Having lost her dowry in a shipwreck, Mariana

is abandoned by her lover Angelo and spends

the next five years in a moated grange.

(Shakespeare, Measure for measure, and Tennyson,Mariana)